Accountability

Government Accountability or Government Accounting?

How can accountability be imposed?

My preferred solution would be accountability.

And accountability is no longer absent in Mexico.

This was the objective set by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which requested that the publication of multinational oil companies' payments to governments be made mandatory.

Economic openness and political accountability clearly can coexist without much difficulty.

Only openness and accountability can reverse this trend.

That sort of accountability is long gone.

There is, however, scant accountability.

Musharraf s personal frankness and integrity appealed to the street and earned him de facto legitimacy.

At bottom, the problem is one of legitimacy.

M. Camdessus has lost his legitimacy, and he must go.

I am certain that power sharing, reconciliation, and accountability are the only way forward for Iraq.

9. Encourages Governments to manage resources assigned to education in a responsible, accurate and transparent way and to ensure accountability

They must operate within tight legal constraints, and with rigorous accountability frameworks, involving the government and the legislature.

These dimensions include international legitimacy, values (including tolerance), and public opinion.

Their loss of legitimacy will not be reparable.

It needs to draw its strength and legitimacy from both broader participation and by achieving results.

Instead, it bases its legitimacy on rapid economic growth and ethnic Han nationalism.

This failure is progressively undermining the regime's legitimacy and the Central Committee knows it.

Democratic legitimacy won a major battle over social legitimacy.

Second, a change of government through elections prompted reforms and gave them democratic legitimacy.

Contemporary democracies base their legitimacy on ensuring both political and social rights.

Now we in the West overwhelmingly seem to think in these days at least that the authority and legitimacy of the state is a function of democracy.

They cast doubt on the official orthodoxy, and thus on the legitimacy of the state.

Rather than undermining radical Islam, the US has legitimized it, in Iraq and beyond.

The IMF itself, of course, is in a deep crisis, with many questioning its mission and legitimacy. For better or for worse, however, current circumstances offer an opportunity.

The IMF itself, of course, is in a deep crisis, with many questioning its mission and legitimacy.

It is fighting issues of authority, legitimacy and trust in difficult times amidst the angst stirred up by its policy reforms.

But a Putinist government won't have much time for openness, debate, or accountability.

Punish by way of trampling all over the law is fundamentally destroying the legitimacy of the government.

What we can say is that all of the happiest countries emphasize equality, solidarity, democratic accountability, environmental sustainability, and strong public institutions.

Brutality and indifference to just war principles of discrimination and proportionality can also destroy legitimacy.

This model will ensure an efficient Commission with strong public legitimacy.

Paradoxically, she made accountable and authoritative government possible again partly by curtailing the state s role in the economy.

12. Further reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

How, then, will Brown acquire legitimacy as Britain s new leader?

Every four or five years, the legitimacy of the system needs to be confirmed by elections.

Its credibility indeed, its very legitimacy is at risk.

But Putin s legitimacy has also been tainted by the pervasive fraud.

The Constituent Assembly, which should build national unity and democratic legitimacy, has been turned into a mechanism for division and absolute power.

When they do, their efforts strengthen the legitimacy and authority of both the member states and the Union.

Social Darwinism's emphasis on biogroup identity and the role of organic relations within societies fostered legitimacy and appeal for nationalism.

Recalling the commitment of Member States to enhance the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, accountability and credibility of the United Nations system as a shared goal and interest,